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We feel like every month - and every day - is a reason for celebrating Native Americans and our heritage. November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. You’re reading the first draft of history. More Stories Like This South Dakota Senate Candidate Charged with Multiple Sexual Acts Against Adopted Child Brooklyn Bridge Fills with Support for MMIP Nevada Reservation Reaches Settlement with County Over In-Person Voting Access WATCH: NCAI's Larry Wright Discuss the Native Vote Tribal Business News Round Up: Oct. War Jack is on the present IOAT planning committee and will share this story as an original leader and Alcatraz veteran. LaNada War Jack and Richard Oakes of SF State University, who initially led the coalition of Indians from across the country into a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, the success and sacrifice of a peaceful revolution will continue to embark on its goal.ĭr. To the first Native American to attend UC Berkeley, Dr. This stopped the states from terminating reservations and taking more land, and included strengthening the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget and Indian Health Service, among implementation of positive governmental policies. Although this never became a reality, President Nixon took some brave actions and signed an Executive Order to eradicate the Termination Policy in 1970. The plan called for an architectural plan for Thunderbird University and a cultural center. The plan has its roots in some of the demands Indians of All Tribes made back over a half century ago. Plans include having educational credit sponsored by a bay area college or university and continue to share the Indians of All Nations' stories and culture with teachers, professors and students. It appears we have had some initial support from the Park Service and IOAT intends to continue their plight for a physical presence on Alcatraz to share their histories and culture. The cultural center would create a permanent cultural presence on Alcatraz Island as a space for learning and gathering and is consistent with the stated goal of the National Park Service to recognize Indigenous culture as part of the national experience. Sams III, a tribal citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla, to become the director of the National Park Service, Indians of All Tribes organizers feel the timing may right to call for the establishment of Native American cultural center on Alcatraz Island. Pacific Time, that will include a welcome and land acknowledgement.Ĭiting the progress with President Joe Biden selecting Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) to be the first Native American to become a presidential cabinet secretary and the president’s nomination of Charles F. On Saturday, a program will begin at 10 a.m. LaNada War Jack, one of the original students who took over Alcatraz Island, said in a press release. “After centuries of broken treaties, brutal injustice and discriminatory US Government policies which sought to assimilate Indians and erase their traditions and heritage, this fight for the survival of their people, took on meaningful action by annexing Alcatraz and demanding its possession in a call for attention to their plight, ultimately capturing the attention of the San Francisco Bay Area, the nation and the world,” Dr. Coast Guard, and other branches of the federal government who ordered the Native Americans to leave. The group of students formed Indians of All Tribes, which still exists today.įor 19 months the Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz Island, defying then President Richard Nixon, the U.S.

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Want more Native News? Get the free daily newsletter today. It was on Novemwhen a group of 89 Native Americans from many tribes landed by boat on Alcatraz Island and claimed the former prison as Indian territory. After the prison closed in 1963, Native Americans began to petition the federal government to put it into “Indian land.” Called the “Rock,” the penitentiary’s most famous inmate was notorious gangster Al Capone. Indians of All Tribes will commemorate the 52 nd anniversary of the Native Student Occupation of Alcatraz Island on Saturday, Novemon Alcatraz Island.įor years, the island was home to a federal penitentiary.

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